August, September, and Lots of Pictures

The ending of summer was fantastic, and wicked busy. Fall's been great so far too, even though school has started. Since the last blog post, a month ago, we went to Altamont, JoAnna came, we had the pig roast, and school started. I also discontinued my 365 project. Since July 4th, I've taken pictures on 5 different cameras, so trying to sort the pictures would have been a nightmare. Then at Milford, I missed a couple of days, so originally I just planned on finishing it 2 days late, but then at Altamont it was a problem again. And even though the actual picture taking didn't take long, I was constantly fretting and such. So I decided to just stop it. It's sort of a relief, though I sorta really miss it. Oh well. I might do a 52 week one sometime instead. Here's some pictures from the last month.

This is at the rodeo at the fair. He was jumping off to tie it, but it just makes me laugh. He looks so funny!

Donnelly's on the way to Altamont!!!

Abby made me a rock drawing at Altamont and it made me SO happy, I had to go to the dorm and get my camera to document it. :)

Bethanie, Kim, and I, all actually smiling with our eyes open! It took awhile. :D

I love that the corn is tall enough to amble through now. Falllllllll walks!

Gilbert showing off one of the tomatoes from the garden. We got quite the haul.

Orianna with squash.

Lillian makes me laugh. :)

"Helping" Ashley with her garden.

Gilbert and a HUGE zuchin-I-can't-spell-it. We didn't even plant any this year. But it grew!

A watermelon from the garden. It was some smaller variety, so Justin ate the whole thing. :)

Silly-ians.

Oh clouds.

How summery!

We went up to Owen and Ashley's for supper one night to try lobster, and the church across the road was pretty in the evening sunlight. 

First lobster!

Haying! 

I LIKE GOLDENROD. MKAY.

The girls talking to Amy on her birthday. :)

The girls having a tea party with tea and sandwiches. 

Lawnmowers are just so fun.

I love this little boy!!!

Cowsssss.

So Monday before Labor Day, we went to Montreal. This is us changing a tire, the first of a LONNNNNG list of things that went wrong. :D

This is when we unknowingly parked in a lane of traffic for about 20 minutes. We just thought it was a place to park. Whoops!

I got an old camera at Joe's, but I don't have film for it, so I can just do pictures through the viewfinder for now. but it makes me happy!

Riding up to play baseball Labor Day weekend.

Fiooooona!

The kids walking back from baseball.

Corn!

Marilla Jane.

Young kids after meeting!

Girls!

Amy and Ethan for their annual picture. :)

Rilla and Raggedy Anne.

Evan making ice cream!

The White brought Moxie!!!!! 

Going up to the bonfire/ hymnsing on Sunday.

What sweet cousins. :)

Daddy and Justin dragged out the old pump organ and Austin got the honors of playing it. Evan's pretty priceless here. :D 

The guys were going to sleep in the sugar shack on hay, but it turns out that 3 of the 5 guys were allergic to hay. So the girls slept there instead. This is Amy demonstrating how to sleep in the sugar shack. :D

Split Rock after Sunday night's rain. Sooo high!

Walking back from Bet's Saturday morning.

At the Gibson Brother's concert Saturday night. (If you've never heard them before, listen to this song of theirs, it's fantasssstic!) Fiona, Anthony, Alex, Tori, and Cody. CODY IS HOME!!!!

And on the other side, Ashley, Owen, and Caleb. Bet and Justin were also there, but they sat a row up. And after the concert, we went to Walmart. It was quite the trip. :)

I wish that the American flag was near the moon, but it wasn't. The Canadian one is pretty with it too though.

There was quite the dancing going on!

This old guy was quite the attraction at the show. :D

Cody all dudded up for Sunday. I love his hat!!

The raspberry pie I made yesterday!

Beautiful-ness

Life has been beautiful! :) This afternoon was GORGEOUS so I went and wandered around and took pictures for one of the first days in a couple weeks. I've just taken like one picture a day. And I took most of my pictures of the last month or so on Clover and Bethaney's cameras, so I don't have those pictures to update my 365 album yet. oops. Anyways, we got to Altamont next week, and then the week after that JoAnna is coming!

Tori, Alex and I after the fair last night. We had tons of fun, screaming at all the talent acts, watching people on rides, having the carnies ask us weird questions ("Are you gurllllllls fur sale? Cuz yous got STICKERS on yer head!" - one carny lady, since we had got milk stickers on our foreheads,) and eating delightful fair food. We got a funnel cake, poutine, and a hot apple cinnamon fried dough, between the 3 of us. [OH! I got new glasses! The pair I'm wearing in this picture are my work ones, I have another pair that are nicer too. They make me happy.] [Tori got new glasses too. She's also wearing her work ones. We decided that the fair wasn't the best place for new glasses we want to keep nice. :D ]

Oh how I love sunlight and leaves!

A morning glory on the bridge over the ditch. :)

I really, truly, love queen anne's lace. 

And stone walls with trees. 

And goldenrod also.

Oh, and airplanes too. Today was a very love-to-the world day.

There's a diptych of two goldenrod photos above here.

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Lazy cows under the elm. My original goal was to go sit under the elm in my little favorite spot, but I knew if I walked up there they'd all get scared and move and they looked to happy for me to do that. So I ambled instead.

This picture is like happiness in plant form. Or something. 

Coyote climbing the little hill in the pasture.

I liked both of them, so I put both up, but I feel kinda silly.

I went to go walk into the cornfield, but the neighbors pit bull came after Coyote and I, so I ended up not going. Plus I was barefoot and I had forgotten that the whole bottom of that cornfield is mud. But I did get a picture of Al Blazey's barn. Actually, someone else lives there now, but it seems wrong to call it something else.

Chicory! It seems purple-y here.

Mum took me to Malone this evening, and I got canvases and paint!! I'm SO glad that Walmart is carrying canvases again, because always having to go to Micheals for them was always a pain, since we go out there just a couple times a year.